The Letters to the Next President web site currently features over 2,600 letters to the next President of the United States. The site is a collaborative initiative between the National Writing Project and Google. What a great idea!
I hereby invite all edubloggers to write their own letter to the next President. Share your thoughts, wishes, concerns, etc. Let us know what’s important to you and how you feel about it.
I’m going to write mine between now and the election. Here’s a Technorati tag for us to use:
I’ll tag a few folks to hopefully get us started. ANYONE is welcome to participate! David? Sheryl? Chris? Vicki? Will? Jon? Alice? Scott? Justin? Tracy? Wes? Darren? Sylvia? Miguel? Bill? Jennifer? Doug? Angela? You in?
I'm in. Give me some time to think on this one.
I just wish I could write it to Lessig.
Posted by: Darren Draper | October 29, 2008 at 10:43 PM
My students all did this on our class blog:
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=697873&mode=comment&blogger_id=65078
Can they submit here too? They are not 13 years old yet.
Brian
Posted by: Brian Crosby | October 29, 2008 at 11:04 PM
@Brian: Cool! It's okay with me. Do whatever you think is best to protect them. Maybe just add the Technorati tag to their posts?
Posted by: Scott McLeod | October 30, 2008 at 04:22 AM
Of course. I've voted, am crossing my fingers for my candidate's safety and success, and it will be a pleasure to write him some well wishes and clues. Great idea!
Posted by: Scott Merrick | October 30, 2008 at 06:16 AM
Here's Mine:
http://www.edjurist.com/blog/letter-to-the-next-president.html
Posted by: Justin B. | October 30, 2008 at 11:41 AM
My first draft is here...
http://mguhlin.net/2008/10/dear-mr-president.html
Thanks for the invite,
Miguel Guhlin
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net
http://mguhlin.net
Posted by: Miguel Guhlin | October 30, 2008 at 08:26 PM
http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/10/shorter-letter-to-obama-on-education.html
Posted by: Tom Hoffman | October 31, 2008 at 11:01 AM
I'm definitely in, Scott---
I was trying to figure out what I was going to write about this weekend, so your invite was perfectly timed.
Mine will be done by Sunday,
Bill
Posted by: Bill Ferriter | October 31, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Jeepers, Scott. You really know how to shake a guy out of the blogging doldrums. Blogdrums? I took the liberty of extending the invitation to a group of Minnesota teachers working on a technology leadership project. Thanks for the tag; I'll give it my best shot over the weekend.
Posted by: Scott Schwister | October 31, 2008 at 02:27 PM
Letters to the Next President...great project! Just posted our letters yesterday. Such a "real-life" method to teach several skills.
This also helped in our learning to utilize our class wiki, where I posted helpful resources (http://mrsginfo.pbwiki.com/Letters+to+the+Next+President+Grade+11)
To model, I wrote a letter to both candidates. I'll be glad to post one.
Posted by: Tammy Gillmore | November 01, 2008 at 09:56 AM
Here's my bit, Scott:
http://tinyurl.com/6bcckx
I enjoyed writing this...thanks for including me.
Rock on,
Bill
Posted by: Bill Ferriter | November 02, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Here's one with a sports wrapper: http://athademic.org/blog/?p=33.
Posted by: Rich Haglund | November 04, 2008 at 09:59 AM
I'm in...though I need to give this some thought. Thanks for asking - it's a great assignment!
Tracy
Posted by: Tracy Rosen | November 04, 2008 at 08:03 PM
Dear Colleagues,
As one of the folks behind Letters to the Next President, I love this effort to add your teachers' voices to the mix of ideas for our future. I think the students, too, will appreciate the sense that they inspired others to write their own letters. We've been maintaining a list of bookmarks for other also writing letters, and we'll be adding these too. I think you'll have many L2P participants (teachers and students both) reading these blogs.
Thank you all so much,
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
Posted by: Elyse Eidman-Aadahl | November 05, 2008 at 02:20 PM
Here is my open letter to President-Elect Obama with hopes that readers will be able to divine the essential message: http://kriley19.wordpress.com/
Posted by: Kevin W. Riley | November 08, 2008 at 02:02 AM